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Cabinet - Sources

Hooke's microscope
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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Letter
Interior of St Anne's Lutheran Church, Augsburg
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Drawing of Mount Bjelašnica
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Church at Rovaniemi
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Saami boy
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Meydancıkkale
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Stradanus, Distillation (Nova Reperta)
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Promotional Immigration Literature and Ephemera
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Drawing of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Uppsala
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Statue of Buddha
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Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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